North Burma Christian Mission — Organization Profile
North Burma Christian Mission, also known as NBCM, is a Christian mission organization with roots reaching back to 1921. Its current public materials describe the ministry as a mission movement serving Southeast Asia through evangelism, discipleship, church planting, Bible training, literature, media, music, youth homes, community development, and deaf ministry. The organization’s stated vision is that millions in Asia would be eternally influenced for Christ through multiple outreach ministries.
The mission has a U.S. home-office mailing contact in Ponca City, Oklahoma, while its field work is centered in Thailand and broader Southeast Asia. The ministry’s history began with J. Russell and Gertrude Morse serving in Tibet and China, continued into Burma in the early 1950s, and later relocated to Thailand in 1972. Today, NBCM describes its work as extending across multiple countries, languages, and people groups in Asia.
NBCM operates through a team of missionaries and national coworkers. Its evangelistic work includes partnering with committed national preachers to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches among tribal and local people groups. Leadership training is another core area, with Bible training courses and Bible schools serving church leaders and members across many ethnicities and languages.
The mission also supports Christian literature and media in minority languages. Its literature department in Thailand translates, designs, and prepares Bibles, hymnbooks, and other Christian materials for more than a dozen people groups. Its media and music ministries create sermons, dramas, testimonies, Christian programs, hymnbooks, music recordings, and videos that can be shared through social media and local distribution channels.
NBCM’s holistic work includes youth homes, community development, business as mission, and deaf ministry. Youth homes provide safe housing during the school year so tribal children can receive formal education while remaining connected to Christian values and their cultural identity. Development work includes agriculture, infrastructure, health and sanitation, water projects, education, church planting, and relief assistance. Deaf ministry has included churches started in Chiang Mai that are now led by local leaders.
People can engage with North Burma Christian Mission by praying for the work, subscribing to missionary newsletters, supporting individual missionaries, giving by check to the general mission fund, and learning about specific field ministries through the mission team pages. Its distinct contribution is long-term, multi-generational Christian mission work among tribal and local communities in Southeast Asia, combining Gospel proclamation with leadership training, local-language resources, and practical community care.
Key Links
- Website: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/
- Current Ministries: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/about.html
- History of the Mission: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/about1.html
- Purpose and Vision: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/about-copy.html
- Mission Team: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/mission-team.html
- Missionaries: https://www.northburmachristianmission.org/missionaries.html
- Charity Navigator: https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/356023251
- GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/35-6023251
Contact Information
- Mailing address: NBCM General Missions, PO Box 494, Ponca City, OK 74602
Socials
Leadership
- David Morse — NBCM Director; Literature Ministry
- Norma Morse — Missionary
- Tom Morse — Evangelist; Bible School Teacher
- Debbie Morse — Missionary
- Ron Morse — Evangelist; Development; Bible School Teacher
- Pat Morse — Missionary
- Joel Khopang — Evangelist; Translator; Teacher; Music Ministry
- Marilyn Khopang — Missionary
- Bobby Morse — Evangelist; Youth Homes; Media
- Tassanee Morse — Missionary
- Walter Ridgley — Church Planting; Business as Mission
- JeanNette Ridgley — Missionary
- Derry Gambill — Bible School Teacher; Music Ministry
- Angela Gambill — Missionary
- Angela Morse — Media Producer; Teacher; Daughters of Ruth
- Jessica Ridgley — Teacher; Missionary Support
- Elijah Ridgley — Missionary Support
- Dewayne Liebrandt — Evangelist; Deaf Ministry
- Jackie Liebrandt — Deaf Ministry
- Kerry McDaniel — NBCM Mission Home Office Contact
